Hi fellow pepper heads! I've recently created a FB page for sharing interesting gardening articles and aggregating all of your questions for upcoming videos. If you have something you want answered about peppers in my next video, hit the link and drop me a line in the comments: facebook.com/veronicagrows/posts/161775457877160
Thank you Veronica,,Fantastic! Can you come over and prune my Refa plant?lol.....When you trim the longer storks,Could you replant/Root hormone them?I live far North in USA,And my season is short,And can use any trick to get peppers canned and stored for winter....I dug up Jalapeno and a Poblano plant and have them wintering in the house.We will see how they do this summer if it ever gets here.lol..TY73s
Veronica Flores I did pruned my chilli plants 3 weeks ago. How long doss it normally take them to start flowering? They are getting tall again and the new branches are growing upwards instead of sideways.Give me an advice, please...
Thanks to this video, 2020 is the first year I dared prune my pepper plants in april. If all of the baby fruit I can see now will grow up, I'll be able to make a lot of hot sauce this year!
Watched this video about 3 months ago. I took your advice and pruned my bells and banana peppers as you instructed. Holy leaping lizards, did it work great!!! Peppers transplanted and never looked better! Thank you for teaching an old fart a better way. I have become an avid fan!!!
There is also another great technique that puts less stress on the plants, and it’s by pinching and twisting the main stalk, twist back n forth a lil until the plant becomes pliable and you bend it over horizontal to the ground. It’ll form a big ole knot in the stem, creating a super highway for nutes tp travel, plus harden up the stem dramatically, and it’ll force the growth hormone down into the other nodes for a big growth. Super cropping it’s called, you can do this bending on any branches which hardens all branches as well. It’s a form of low stress training
I re-watch your pepper pruning video every year to refresh my memory and embolden myself before pruning my new young peppers. THANK YOU FOR SUCH AN INFORMATIVE VIDEO!
I have been gardening for 55 yrs, retiring after 24 yrs growing turf grass at upscale golf courses. Long resume growing things. This lady knows what she'stalking about. Follow her advice and you will have amazing peppers.
Out of ALL the pruning pepper videos I peeped, yours was detailed and to the point. I'm a newbie (since May 2019) and this really helped me to learn EXACTLY WHEN TO PRUNE (3 layers of leaves). I'm going to subscribe and check in with you more often for your advice!!!!
This is my forth year growing hot peppers now. I finally mustered up the courage to prune last year because of this vid, and my yield was much better. I have you to thank for that, lady.
hi, just to give you some feedback on your advice in this video, I did exactly what you said and my plants grew just as you said they would! lovely and bushy. Great tip and I will be doing this every year now. Your a star!
I am starting a tiny herb garden and have been researching the past few days. Out of all the videos I have seen, you have provided the best tips for pruning plants. I am very impressed. Thank you so much!!!
Wow, I literally stopped the video half way thru and ran out to my raised beds and pruned my peppers that I just planted a week ago. I couldn't wait until the end of the video! Great explanation on how and why you prune peppers!
How cute you are. Thanks for this kind and helpful video. I was just looking for this. Just transplanted my new plants into new pots and will be ready to prune them in a week or two.
You had me at growth hormone ... as a n00b gardener I've watched a lot of videos about planting and while everyone agrees that leggy plants are bad, nobody has scientifically explained "WHY". thank you
The plant hormone gibberellin is responsible for length growth. I cannot believe I remember that from 1981, Dr Karen Renzaglia, was a freshman in college. We put it on a cabbage and instead of growing spherical, it grew tall. So cool.
Thank you for the detail instructions and the video showing exactly where you are pruning - this is the first I have heard about pruning peppers. I appreciate your efforts and excitement in working with the peppers.
That was the best instruction on the scary, dark art of pruning I have ever seen. Thank you!! I was always terrified to prune plants, but now with your encouragement, I'm going outside and start pruning away.
This was excellent advice! I followed this and it helped my habaneros and jalapenos. I yielded about 14 pounds of jalapenos from 3 plants doing this and it was indeed very scary at the start, but the yield was great! Thank you for posting this!
I am gonna prune my chili plants, which have just came out from the seeds. How big were they when you pruned your plants? I don't want to do it too soon
Levintry thank you for your post stating it work with habanero peppers too. First year growing peppers. I’d heard not to top habaneros.....then proceeded to top all my peppers. My habanero is very nice and bushy.🇨🇦🌞
I also recently started this pruning and it is definitely worth it,using a razor blade works so well for me. The plants look way better and as you say, holds a crop better. Great Channel!
Don't know how I ended up here but it's pretty awesome because I have just put my first little ones through germination and into the soil to get them ready for my experimental aquaponic system. I love the Reapers. Not easy to come by here in Mozambique but I have seeds waiting for me in South Africa that I will collect later this year. Awesome vid, my first batch still has some growing to do before they get the cut but at least I have a pretty informed approach thanks to this. Cheers!
I didn’t know to do this and had exactly the problem you mentioned. My peppers were too tall and producing a low amount of fruit. We had a massive rain and a bunch of them broke. A few years ago a rabbit got into my garden and trimmed my peppers and tomatoes to the nub and they all came back and thrived. Nice video!
@Rich S I wonder if our founding fathers envisioned career politicians who are repeatedly elected for decades by an electorate just looking for greater and greater handouts? Probably not.
Hey, @Rich S, the moment you open your yap to whine about 'big government', you lose any and all credibility, right? I suppose you prefer a family of corrupt morons running things? And three years ago, lots of scientists saw the potential of something like this coming, and they said so, and #45 spit in their, and our, faces. We had a chance to 'keep our powder dry' but #45 pissed on it. But I'm sure 'blah, blah, blah, FREEDOM!', right?
I’m growing peppers for the first time and my plants are all getting tall & top heavy. I NEVER would have thought to do this type of pruning, but I’ll give it a try now. Thanks!
This is great. I’m going to cut back my leggy banana peppers. I used to love doing this with roses, snapping off individual leaflets to steer the growth of the plant. I never thought to do it in any other plant. Thank you.
Thank you for posting this video. It will help me grow stronger, more fruitful plants going forward. Subscribed, not only for the information, but because of the beautiful spirit. You actually care about what you're doing and the content you're sharing. That is genuine and valuable. Thank you and looking forward to watching future videos.
Growing superhots for the first time, indoors, about 2200 km north of the weather I'm used to. Our season starts late though, so I'm just around 10--14 leaves right now. Last night I watched this and just lobbed off about half of everything I've worked so hard on! Let's hope it pays off! Also - great video.
Hello from North Yorkshire England. I plan on pruning some of my peppers in this manner and see how much of an improvement of a crop I get! Thanks for the tips and advice.
clear, well expressed, confidence building for me sitting here surrounded with small pepper plants at just this stage....so here we go (gulp) Subscribed
What great advice! I think most people are too afraid to prune peppers and even to "sucker" tomatoes. I have been growing pepper for a LONG time and have done this forever and it works! :) Thanks so much for your videos, your a natural. :)
Mandy Novak Eichelsderfer I feel your pain ✌ I'm about to do the same. I've got a tall lanky plant. Excellent information straight away in this video👍 Best of harvests to you!
You know that expression, "If I learned one new thing, it was worth the time"? Holy Crap! I've never heard of this and I have 6 peppers just about at the perfect point to prune this year. I've got to try this. Yes indeed, this is scary! You lopped off 70% of the growth on one of those! I can't let my wife see me do this, or she will freak. I'm not sure my explanation will suffice. "Don't worry, honey, I saw this video on RUclips..." Thanks for making this video. I'm truly stunned.
This is my first time to watch your video for like the first 5 mins and I went out to the patio to trim my first pepper plant. After that, I finished the other half of your video and went out and trim ✂️all my pepper plants 🌱 . This is very addictive 😂
Aaaaagh! My peppers and I watched this video... they disappeared and a few seconds later I heard the door slam... and out they ran! GREAT VID! Yes, it does work! (Try to explain that to your peppers...) Watch this video ALONE. Thanks Veronica! Thanks for the vote of confidence of the "haircut"... OFF WITH THEIR HEADS! :)
Really great presentation! I've saved this video and watch it every year when it's time to prune my Shishito peppers. Always get great growth and lots and lots of fruit! Thanks!
Hi Veronica! This is possibly the best plant video I've ever seen and I have been growing plants for 20 years. I am using this technique when I get back to my plants. Thank you :)
Hello Veronica. This is very useful information. I am in Zimbabwe and at the moment my peppers are falling over and are only bearing one or two per plant. I am going to try your method next time and I am sure it will be a much better crop. It's nice of you to share your knowledge. Thanks a lot!
I’ve grown peppers in containers for 2 years. I’ve never pruned and I always have about 10” at the bottom with nothing and a huge, weighty bush on top. I’m definitely pruning next year.
This was the first year of topping peppers and it makes a real difference if you cut them down near the base. I cut one up higher and it did not bush out like the ones that looked butchered. A few of them, I just pinched the top where it splits and those also did not bush up as well. Just clip it back like a rose bush and wait for the results... My sweet peppers are producing like crazy, already pickled some and the plants are loaded again LOL! Hot peppers are big and bushy and setting peppers all over; one of them is covered with blazing hot peppers OMG
This really works. I have a ghost pepper plant that's about 6 months old that I pruned yesterday for the first time and there's already new sprouts on it today. The pepper that's growing on it even looks healthier. Don't be afraid to cut branches off because you'll be happy you did. I cut my plant in half.
Just went out to top 5 of my 8 pepper plants. Hope to plant out in a couple weeks. Didn't quite dare to do them all.... maybe next year. Thanks and enjoy your videos.
Great video thank you! I really liked your explanations , like u didnt just say....cut at an angle as most gardeners do, but explained why!!! Affording me the knowledge which l had never thought to ask before.....to a low the water to run off.
I wish I would have learned this at the start of the season!! Should I prune in the same manner? Even if the plant is producing fruit at the top already.
Awesome video. I love it. Any chance we could get an update now that it's a few months later? PS: What kind of yield (peppers / plant) are you getting on your superhots like the reaper?
Rooting the pruned-off parts might be a consideration, given how much of a stalk it has and how easy it is to root members of the nightshade family. I found this out after some knucklehead in Killeen, TX 'delivered' the phone book by beating up one of my banana pepper plants and breaking its stem into three parts before dropping the book onto the plant. Both parts that were broken off from the roots, despite sitting in the summer heat for an afternoon, rooted quickly and caught up with the stem pretty quickly.
That's amazing! I remember that the humidity in Texas helps so much with re-rooting cuttings as well. I had a puppy run over a pretty mature pepper last week in CA, and ended up just putting a little duct tape on the stem where it broke, lol. (Wasn't a clear cut.)
I logged in to suggest this same thing. You could double your pepper plants by just rotting the cut off tops. I'd love to see a follow up video of your peppers later in the year as they grew out. I will look through your videos.. Thanks for sharing this !
unlikely you read old replies, but I have been researching it for a while, and you motivated me to go out and decapitate all my hot peppers. Like you I have been growing peppers a long time. Last year at the end of the season I had a sickly plant and took a huge amount off to cut off problem. I over wintered it and already outside in march its a blooming bush with fruit.
That’s so awesome! Sometimes it’s so helpful to just give a struggling plant a fresh start. 🙂 (P.S. I read all replies in order that they’re received provided I get the notifications- but I only do it 2-3x a week for the sake of my mental health and filtering through the noise.)
Worked fine for my bell pepper plant. Tried it out about 10-12 days ago and now its got several new baby limbs and leaves sprouting. This is my 1st time trying it and Im going to be doing this from now on. Thanks! :)
Well this scares me so much I nearly wet myself while pruning all my delicious looking jalapeño plants but I followed your advice. Let’s see in 2 weeks from now. #shiversdownmyspine
Steven Platteeuw How did your pruned peppers do last year? To busy eating them all to post an update? I know it works great, because I have been doing it for years but others are curious.
Last year I watched a similar video and I was terrified to prune my pepper plants this way, but I did. I regretted it immediately after, but I was so happy when two weeks later the pepper plants started looking so bushy and healthy and so much stronger. I pruned the peppers for this season only yesterday and my friend saw them and exclaimed "what happened to your plants??", to which I replied calmly "nothing, just got a little haircut". I am not afraid to do that anymore because the results are spectacular. I wish, however, I could keep the pepper plants indoors over winter. But even the house can get too cold for them and any amount of stress causes them to be prone to aphids, which I hate so much for obvious reasons. If only I could have a way to save them from aphids! :) Thank you for a wonderful video!! Always good to get a refresher.
Hi Veronica. Just wanted to thank you for your advice on pruning peppers. All my plants are very busy with lots of little peppers starting. By the way when I cut them I made sure to say "Boop". Ha! Ha! That's what's most important. You're cute!😊
Thats a great tip! You just got a new subscriber. Pruning works really well for basil too, though you have to do it constantly, harvesting the trimmings as you go. I’ve gotten an average of about two large garden trash bags of basil from plant doing that. The cuttings can be placed in water on a window sill to keep them fresh and handy for later use, or if left long enough they develop roots and can be replanted in the garden to create a whole new plant.
Oh, heck, I just did it!!! Though my three plants are young, approx 18", there are GPs growing on lower branches. As I pruned off branches with flowers which I believe would have produced more GPs, I hoped I wasn't being stupid. God help me!!! LOL
I just recently learned about pruning peppers and tomatoes, I still have a couple Bahamian Goat pepper and Tabasco plants that I never done this to, they're over 5 feet tall now but luckily didn't need any staking, Just now pruned all of my other pepper plants I've got growing, thanks for sharing your knowledge.
Exactly what I needed to hear. An amateur farmer, my first trial is with peppers. I admired healthy lushy peppers on the Internet as they're always shown but wasn't sure how to get mine grow that way. Many thanks 😊definitely got a new subscriber from Kenya 🇰🇪
Hi fellow pepper heads! I've recently created a FB page for sharing interesting gardening articles and aggregating all of your questions for upcoming videos. If you have something you want answered about peppers in my next video, hit the link and drop me a line in the comments: facebook.com/veronicagrows/posts/161775457877160
Thank you Veronica,,Fantastic! Can you come over and prune my Refa plant?lol.....When you trim the longer storks,Could you replant/Root hormone them?I live far North in USA,And my season is short,And can use any trick to get peppers canned and stored for winter....I dug up Jalapeno and a Poblano plant and have them wintering in the house.We will see how they do this summer if it ever gets here.lol..TY73s
Veronica Flores thanks!
Veronica Flores
Hey there pepper anne you wanna go out sometime we could talk about pruning for hooouurs
Veronica Flores I did pruned my chilli plants 3 weeks ago. How long doss it normally take them to start flowering? They are getting tall again and the new branches are growing upwards instead of sideways.Give me an advice, please...
When it's time to prune the baby peppers, I return to this video for courage. Thanks, Veronica.
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Thanks to this video, 2020 is the first year I dared prune my pepper plants in april. If all of the baby fruit I can see now will grow up, I'll be able to make a lot of hot sauce this year!
😆😆 I know right???
I'll keep saying it in my head, Once you occasionally trim well you'll never go back, Veronica said.
Watched this video about 3 months ago. I took your advice and pruned my bells and banana peppers as you instructed. Holy leaping lizards, did it work great!!! Peppers transplanted and never looked better! Thank you for teaching an old fart a better way. I have become an avid fan!!!
Was just gonna ask about bells, I have minis so idk if it's the same. Gonna try it and see
Do the plants grow any taller after you cut them off, or just stay short and bushy?
There is also another great technique that puts less stress on the plants, and it’s by pinching and twisting the main stalk, twist back n forth a lil until the plant becomes pliable and you bend it over horizontal to the ground. It’ll form a big ole knot in the stem, creating a super highway for nutes tp travel, plus harden up the stem dramatically, and it’ll force the growth hormone down into the other nodes for a big growth. Super cropping it’s called, you can do this bending on any branches which hardens all branches as well. It’s a form of low stress training
I re-watch your pepper pruning video every year to refresh my memory and embolden myself before pruning my new young peppers. THANK YOU FOR SUCH AN INFORMATIVE VIDEO!
me too lol
Off all the explanations on you tube for pruning peppers, this is the best in my opinion. Thank you
Thank you!
My first experience of pruning was from a snail eating the head off a plant causing it to bushout immensely. I wish I could thank that snail.
Well it's probably dead now.
LOL That made me laugh. But I do see your point! 🤣
You just did
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Which type of compose u do use?
I have been gardening for 55 yrs, retiring after 24 yrs growing turf grass at upscale golf courses. Long resume growing things. This lady knows what she'stalking about. Follow her advice and you will have amazing peppers.
Out of ALL the pruning pepper videos I peeped, yours was detailed and to the point. I'm a newbie (since May 2019) and this really helped me to learn EXACTLY WHEN TO PRUNE (3 layers of leaves). I'm going to subscribe and check in with you more often for your advice!!!!
Thanks! Feel free to check out my update to this one as well - there are a few varieties we've collectively found to respond better than others. 🙂
This is my forth year growing hot peppers now. I finally mustered up the courage to prune last year because of this vid, and my yield was much better. I have you to thank for that, lady.
hi, just to give you some feedback on your advice in this video, I did exactly what you said and my plants grew just as you said they would! lovely and bushy. Great tip and I will be doing this every year now. Your a star!
I am starting a tiny herb garden and have been researching the past few days. Out of all the videos I have seen, you have provided the best tips for pruning plants. I am very impressed. Thank you so much!!!
Wow, I literally stopped the video half way thru and ran out to my raised beds and pruned my peppers that I just planted a week ago. I couldn't wait until the end of the video! Great explanation on how and why you prune peppers!
My grandpa had always done this and his plans are so thick and lush! ❤️ Those will be gorgeous plants here soon
Wow girl, this worked like charm. I am a new Gardner and this helped me grow tons of chillis.
How cute you are. Thanks for this kind and helpful video. I was just looking for this. Just transplanted my new plants into new pots and will be ready to prune them in a week or two.
You had me at growth hormone ... as a n00b gardener I've watched a lot of videos about planting and while everyone agrees that leggy plants are bad, nobody has scientifically explained "WHY". thank you
The plant hormone gibberellin is responsible for length growth.
I cannot believe I remember that from 1981, Dr Karen Renzaglia, was a freshman in college.
We put it on a cabbage and instead of growing spherical, it grew tall. So cool.
Gibberellin. One of many plant hormones.
Stem elongation is one of it's functions.
I have watched this video every year around this time for like the last three years lol.
Thank you for the detail instructions and the video showing exactly where you are pruning - this is the first I have heard about pruning peppers. I appreciate your efforts and excitement in working with the peppers.
That was the best instruction on the scary, dark art of pruning I have ever seen. Thank you!! I was always terrified to prune plants, but now with your encouragement, I'm going outside and start pruning away.
This was excellent advice! I followed this and it helped my habaneros and jalapenos. I yielded about 14 pounds of jalapenos from 3 plants doing this and it was indeed very scary at the start, but the yield was great! Thank you for posting this!
I am gonna prune my chili plants, which have just came out from the seeds. How big were they when you pruned your plants? I don't want to do it too soon
Levintry thank you for your post stating it work with habanero peppers too. First year growing peppers. I’d heard not to top habaneros.....then proceeded to top all my peppers. My habanero is very nice and bushy.🇨🇦🌞
I also recently started this pruning and it is definitely worth it,using a razor blade works so well for me. The plants look way better and as you say, holds a crop better. Great Channel!
Don't know how I ended up here but it's pretty awesome because I have just put my first little ones through germination and into the soil to get them ready for my experimental aquaponic system. I love the Reapers. Not easy to come by here in Mozambique but I have seeds waiting for me in South Africa that I will collect later this year. Awesome vid, my first batch still has some growing to do before they get the cut but at least I have a pretty informed approach thanks to this. Cheers!
scariest video I've ever watched on YT - thanks for the comprehensive pruning instruction!! subbed
I didn’t know to do this and had exactly the problem you mentioned. My peppers were too tall and producing a low amount of fruit. We had a massive rain and a bunch of them broke. A few years ago a rabbit got into my garden and trimmed my peppers and tomatoes to the nub and they all came back and thrived. Nice video!
Perfect example of what needs to be trimmed! 🙂
After 20 years gardening I learned something new from you I used to do the tomato but not the pepper👍🏽👍🏽👌🏼👌🏼💋💋
I was gonna do this with my Red Zebra tomato plant. Did it work?
2017 feels like a different planet.
Wait till 2030
It would IF we lived on a 'planet' ( which we don't )
@H M You must give 1/2 of all peppers produced to the state.
@Rich S I wonder if our founding fathers envisioned career politicians who are repeatedly elected for decades by an electorate just looking for greater and greater handouts? Probably not.
Hey, @Rich S, the moment you open your yap to whine about 'big government', you lose any and all credibility, right? I suppose you prefer a family of corrupt morons running things? And three years ago, lots of scientists saw the potential of something like this coming, and they said so, and #45 spit in their, and our, faces. We had a chance to 'keep our powder dry' but #45 pissed on it. But I'm sure 'blah, blah, blah, FREEDOM!', right?
I’m growing peppers for the first time and my plants are all getting tall & top heavy. I NEVER would have thought to do this type of pruning, but I’ll give it a try now. Thanks!
awesome! thank you. I'm a first time gardener and just pruned all 3 of my peppers. It hurt my heart a little bit but i'm SO EXCITED!!!!!!!
This is great. I’m going to cut back my leggy banana peppers. I used to love doing this with roses, snapping off individual leaflets to steer the growth of the plant. I never thought to do it in any other plant. Thank you.
Thank you for posting this video. It will help me grow stronger, more fruitful plants going forward. Subscribed, not only for the information, but because of the beautiful spirit. You actually care about what you're doing and the content you're sharing. That is genuine and valuable. Thank you and looking forward to watching future videos.
Thanks for joining! 🙂
Hi Veronica, I have just started growing peppers I certainly will be trying your technique....Thanks very much
Thank you very much. By far the most helpful video on pruning peppers. Definately pruning my peppers today !
Are you a Kiwi?
Best video on how and why to prune peppers. Beautiful and smart, a real garden Fairy.
I have now watched several of your videos. Very informative. You have also given me the courage to prune my plants. Thanx.
Thanks! Be sure to check out my update on this from a month or so ago if you're still unsure about some of them. :)
Growing superhots for the first time, indoors, about 2200 km north of the weather I'm used to.
Our season starts late though, so I'm just around 10--14 leaves right now. Last night I watched this and just lobbed off about half of everything I've worked so hard on! Let's hope it pays off!
Also - great video.
Did it work? I'm facing the same dilemma right now haha
Thank you so much Veronica! I prune my basil but I never thought to prune my peppers! You are amazing! And quite beautiful I must say!
Hello from North Yorkshire England. I plan on pruning some of my peppers in this manner and see how much of an improvement of a crop I get! Thanks for the tips and advice.
clear, well expressed, confidence building for me sitting here surrounded with small pepper plants at just this stage....so here we go (gulp)
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You can do it! And they'll be so much happier and stronger over a longer season. :)
SirRobinDeSway EXACTLY how I felt haha
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What great advice! I think most people are too afraid to prune peppers and even to "sucker" tomatoes. I have been growing pepper for a LONG time and have done this forever and it works! :)
Thanks so much for your videos, your a natural. :)
A video on suckering tomato would be great my mom has tryed to explain it about 100 times and I just dont get it.
Peppers grow and heal very similar as cannabis
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I just cut mine💔 it was terrifying🌱💚
Mandy Novak Eichelsderfer I feel your pain ✌
I'm about to do the same.
I've got a tall lanky plant.
Excellent information straight away in this video👍
Best of harvests to you!
It's called topping. Excellent method for a lot of varieties of plants 👍
Thanks for posting this, Veronica! I'm new to gardening and am learning via RUclips videos. Very helpful and encouraging!
Update: this actually works! Plants are bushing out nicely. Thanks for the tip!
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Im used to topping but first time growing chillies
I'll give it a try for sure
You know that expression, "If I learned one new thing, it was worth the time"? Holy Crap! I've never heard of this and I have 6 peppers just about at the perfect point to prune this year. I've got to try this. Yes indeed, this is scary! You lopped off 70% of the growth on one of those! I can't let my wife see me do this, or she will freak. I'm not sure my explanation will suffice. "Don't worry, honey, I saw this video on RUclips..." Thanks for making this video. I'm truly stunned.
Yeah I'll go a little more aggressively on some if they're not performing in the ways I'm looking for... you get a feel for it after a while!
It’s nice to see a girl or a young lady interested in veggie plants like Veronica.
Peppers are technically fruit just fyi
This is my first time to watch your video for like the first 5 mins and I went out to the patio to trim my first pepper plant. After that, I finished the other half of your video and went out and trim ✂️all my pepper plants 🌱 . This is very addictive 😂
Aaaaagh! My peppers and I watched this video... they disappeared and a few seconds later I heard the door slam... and out they ran!
GREAT VID! Yes, it does work! (Try to explain that to your peppers...) Watch this video ALONE. Thanks Veronica! Thanks for the vote of confidence of the "haircut"... OFF WITH THEIR HEADS! :)
I never thought you could do this, And from now on it shall be done
Thanks
Really great presentation! I've saved this video and watch it every year when it's time to prune my Shishito peppers. Always get great growth and lots and lots of fruit! Thanks!
Hi Veronica! This is possibly the best plant video I've ever seen and I have been growing plants for 20 years. I am using this technique when I get back to my plants. Thank you :)
My heart was pounding so loud just watching you cut the pepper heads off! 😂
At least now I know what to do to my peppers 🌶 now . Thank you 🙏🙏
Hello Veronica. This is very useful information. I am in Zimbabwe and at the moment my peppers are falling over and are only bearing one or two per plant. I am going to try your method next time and I am sure it will be a much better crop. It's nice of you to share your knowledge. Thanks a lot!
I’ve grown peppers in containers for 2 years. I’ve never pruned and I always have about 10” at the bottom with nothing and a huge, weighty bush on top. I’m definitely pruning next year.
This was the first year of topping peppers and it makes a real difference if you cut them down near the base. I cut one up higher and it did not bush out like the ones that looked butchered. A few of them, I just pinched the top where it splits and those also did not bush up as well. Just clip it back like a rose bush and wait for the results... My sweet peppers are producing like crazy, already pickled some and the plants are loaded again LOL! Hot peppers are big and bushy and setting peppers all over; one of them is covered with blazing hot peppers OMG
Glad to hear your results have been fruitful as well! This method never ceases to amaze me.
Saw this video last year. Worked magic for me with my peppers. Getting ready to do it again this year. Thanks, Veronica.
You are so welcome!
You could also propagate the stem that you pruned off, that way you will also multiply your plants.
I've started growing bell peppers for the first time this year. I've cut the larger leaves off to of my plants.
This really works. I have a ghost pepper plant that's about 6 months old that I pruned yesterday for the first time and there's already new sprouts on it today. The pepper that's growing on it even looks healthier. Don't be afraid to cut branches off because you'll be happy you did. I cut my plant in half.
Love it! My first major job out of hort school was planting ten acres of hazelnut saplings, and I was so terrified when it came time to top them all.
OMG I can't imagine topping my baby hazelnuts right now! That's real bravery lol.
yep. it is painful for about a week then you can see it begin to change its shape dramatically.
Great video sister!
Chuck
Thanks Chuck! I'll have to do an update on these ones as well. They've bushed out quite nicely.
Veronica Flores let's see the results of those you pruned in the video
Just went out to top 5 of my 8 pepper plants. Hope to plant out in a couple weeks. Didn't quite dare to do them all.... maybe next year. Thanks and enjoy your videos.
Thank you Veronica. I have a cloning set-up, so maybe I will try and root the cuttings after the pruning
fist time i watch one of your vids. nice clear and simple. loved it!, thank you for sharing
Great video thank you!
I really liked your explanations , like u didnt just say....cut at an angle as most gardeners do, but explained why!!! Affording me the knowledge which l had never thought to ask before.....to a low the water to run off.
Hey this was a great tip. I tried this on my new red bell pepper and its now growing three branches. Thank you so much.
bit like bonsai trees all the energy is directed to the top of the tree so it does not develop a strong healthy body .nice vid thanks for showing .
Your smile is so pretty, and your eye is so pure, and the knowledge is very informative! Instant thumbs up and subscribe!!!!!!
thanks for shearing :)
I see what you did there. ;)
:)
Hey! This is a great video, I just finished pruning my peppers with what I learned here. Thanks! You are so pretty by the way
Yes, she is!
This video gives me courage to cut pepper plants when young. You keep cutting n cutting n I can do this!! Tks!!
I wish I would have learned this at the start of the season!! Should I prune in the same manner? Even if the plant is producing fruit at the top already.
I usually wait until production dies back a little in those cases, then prune to try and push a bumper crop.
“I always carry a knife”
Yes it was , she gardens and carry’s a knife..👍🏼
Looking like that....at least a knife
as soon as she said that I scrolled to the comments to see. wasn't disappointed obviously.
@@thebigmick1348 are you psychic
totally hot!
Prettiest Gardner Ive ever seen. Smart as Heck too. God Bless Hun.
Awesome video. I love it. Any chance we could get an update now that it's a few months later?
PS: What kind of yield (peppers / plant) are you getting on your superhots like the reaper?
Rooting the pruned-off parts might be a consideration, given how much of a stalk it has and how easy it is to root members of the nightshade family.
I found this out after some knucklehead in Killeen, TX 'delivered' the phone book by beating up one of my banana pepper plants and breaking its stem into three parts before dropping the book onto the plant. Both parts that were broken off from the roots, despite sitting in the summer heat for an afternoon, rooted quickly and caught up with the stem pretty quickly.
That's amazing! I remember that the humidity in Texas helps so much with re-rooting cuttings as well. I had a puppy run over a pretty mature pepper last week in CA, and ended up just putting a little duct tape on the stem where it broke, lol. (Wasn't a clear cut.)
I logged in to suggest this same thing. You could double your pepper plants by just rotting the cut off tops. I'd love to see a follow up video of your peppers later in the year as they grew out. I will look through your videos.. Thanks for sharing this !
How do you re-root cuttings?
Wow, i am quite speechless. A beautiful woman who plants!!!
I've always been terrified to prune my peppers. This video was great! Time to experiment :)
How did they do?!
This was the scariest video I've seen this year.
unlikely you read old replies, but I have been researching it for a while, and you motivated me to go out and decapitate all my hot peppers. Like you I have been growing peppers a long time. Last year at the end of the season I had a sickly plant and took a huge amount off to cut off problem. I over wintered it and already outside in march its a blooming bush with fruit.
That’s so awesome! Sometimes it’s so helpful to just give a struggling plant a fresh start. 🙂 (P.S. I read all replies in order that they’re received provided I get the notifications- but I only do it 2-3x a week for the sake of my mental health and filtering through the noise.)
The deer do my pepper pruning for free.
And fill your freezer in the winter 😉
@@DS-kn4bs haha!
Yeah I just made the same comment lmao
My weaker did to 🤣🤣🤣
If they are anything like the deer in my back yard then they don't care much for sharing either.
Worked fine for my bell pepper plant. Tried it out about 10-12 days ago and now its got several new baby limbs and leaves sprouting. This is my 1st time trying it and Im going to be doing this from now on. Thanks! :)
Great to hear! I've had less luck with larger sweet peppers and this method... keep me posted! 🙂
Veronica Flores update: its got 3 tiny baby peppers on it and about 12 flowers!!
Just tried this to all my pepper plants. I'll let you know what happens. Thanks for the advice.
What happened?
Well this scares me so much I nearly wet myself while pruning all my delicious looking jalapeño plants but I followed your advice. Let’s see in 2 weeks from now. #shiversdownmyspine
hi, what happened after 2 weeks ?
1 year later ... are you still alive lol
Steven Platteeuw How did your pruned peppers do last year? To busy eating them all to post an update?
I know it works great, because I have been doing it for years but others are curious.
Last year I watched a similar video and I was terrified to prune my pepper plants this way, but I did. I regretted it immediately after, but I was so happy when two weeks later the pepper plants started looking so bushy and healthy and so much stronger. I pruned the peppers for this season only yesterday and my friend saw them and exclaimed "what happened to your plants??", to which I replied calmly "nothing, just got a little haircut". I am not afraid to do that anymore because the results are spectacular. I wish, however, I could keep the pepper plants indoors over winter. But even the house can get too cold for them and any amount of stress causes them to be prone to aphids, which I hate so much for obvious reasons. If only I could have a way to save them from aphids! :) Thank you for a wonderful video!! Always good to get a refresher.
If you have a little cash, you might try a heat mat and a little desk fan? They pretty much just need warmth and airflow to keep them going IME.
Thank you for the tip! I might try that. They are beautiful plants.
Pruning is scary! Hope this help my jalapeños to grow stronger and better !
""I am a big proponent of pruning peppers." Say that fast six times.
Hi Veronica. Just wanted to thank you for your advice on pruning peppers. All my plants are very busy with lots of little peppers starting. By the way when I cut them I made sure to say "Boop". Ha! Ha! That's what's most important. You're cute!😊
This is wonderful! You're great at this.
i learnt something today and thanks
You learned it is not necessary or advisable.
Thats a great tip! You just got a new subscriber.
Pruning works really well for basil too, though you have to do it constantly, harvesting the trimmings as you go.
I’ve gotten an average of about two large garden trash bags of basil from plant doing that. The cuttings can be placed in water on a window sill to keep them fresh and handy for later use, or if left long enough they develop roots and can be replanted in the garden to create a whole new plant.
YES! And many other herbs in the mint family as well.
Well presented vid with great content. Glad I found you in my suggested vids. Subbed.
Me too, on both counts!
Tell that rooster to simmer down ! 🐓
Oh, heck, I just did it!!! Though my three plants are young, approx 18", there are GPs growing on lower branches. As I pruned off branches with flowers which I believe would have produced more GPs, I hoped I wasn't being stupid. God help me!!! LOL
How did they turn out?
Well...I just took my first great leap of faith, pruning my young pepper plant. Freaked me out a little bit, but I'm putting my faith in you!
Great info and very well presented. Looking forward to trying this out. Cheers from Ottawa, Canada.
Back a year later to re-watch your video. Wonderful. Cheers from Ottawa, Canada.
Never knew this. Pepper game has been great years past. Excited to try this
I just recently learned about pruning peppers and tomatoes, I still have a couple Bahamian Goat pepper and Tabasco plants that I never done this to, they're over 5 feet tall now but luckily didn't need any staking, Just now pruned all of my other pepper plants I've got growing, thanks for sharing your knowledge.
Yeah if they can support themselves there's rarely a reason to prune! I do it mostly to prevent breakage.
Well I'll be damned. I knew I needed to watch this. Excellent advice Veronica! Too late for me this season, but next year, oh yeah. Thank you! ~~jules
Just started growing peppers. Didnt think i could top them just like i top my cannabis plants. Makes total sense though.
Exactly what I needed to hear. An amateur farmer, my first trial is with peppers. I admired healthy lushy peppers on the Internet as they're always shown but wasn't sure how to get mine grow that way. Many thanks 😊definitely got a new subscriber from Kenya 🇰🇪
Does this practice work with bell peppers as well? Never mind, I’ve found a response of yours to a similar question.